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Westport Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2011 Financial Results
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~First Quarter Revenues Increase 76% Year Over Year; Company Increases Revenue Outlook~
VANCOUVER, Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Westport Innovations Inc. (TSX:WPT/NASDAQ:WPRT), a global leader in alternative fuel, low-emissions transportation technologies, today reported financial results for the first quarter fiscal 2011 ended June 30, 2011 (FY2011) and provided an update on operations. Please note that the Company has changed its year-end from March 31 to December 31 to align the year ends of all the consolidated operating companies to the calendar year as stated in Westport's press release dated June 8, 2011. All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated.
"Strong demand from the North American refuse truck market and Westport's global Light-Duty (LD) automotive business helped grow revenue for the quarter to $45 million, up 76% year-over-year," said David Demers, CEO of Westport Innovations. "As more mature Westport lines of business demonstrate strong growth and bottom line financial performance, we are making strategic investments to maintain Westport's technology leadership and expand our coverage across the full range of worldwide markets for engines."
"The market for natural gas heavy-duty trucks saw transformative investments announced recently by Encana, Chesapeake and Clean Energy that will see rapid development of fueling corridors as well as their own adoption of natural gas as a vital energy source in their operations and supply chain. These investments will deliver infrastructure support as we launch new products and trucking applications over the next two years. We expect similar partnership models will be announced to help support market penetration in Europe and China as well."
"As we outlined in our prospectus offering last fall, we have been investing to significantly broaden our technology and market offerings to expand into light-duty commercial fleets, and also to high horsepower applications such as mining and rail. During the quarter, Westport announced new agreements with GM and Caterpillar to integrate our technologies with their products and explore market opportunities for natural gas engines with these global leaders."
"As announced in the quarter our light-duty vehicle business has acquired Emer, a global leader in off-engine systems for light-duty vehicles. We have combined and rebranded all of our light-duty activity under the name 'Westport LD', which, like our heavy-duty business, will pursue a global leadership position using our technology-led, capital-light business model relying on partnerships and alliances to achieve global scale. Westport LD will offer a range of products and services to leading OEMs, fleets, fueling partners and other market participants."
First Quarter Financial and Business Highlights
- Reported consolidated revenues of $44.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 compared to $25.5 million for the same period last year, an increase of 76%.
- Reported net loss of $18.1 million ($0.38 loss per share) for the period ending June 30, 2011 compared to a net loss of $8.1 million ($0.20 loss per share) for the same period last year. Adjusted EBITDA losses for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 were $10.6 million and $5.2 million, respectively.
- Reported cash and short-term investments balance as at June 30, 2011 of $162.4 million compared to $180.3 million as at March 31, 2011.
- Announced intention to acquire Emer S.p.A. of Italy; transaction closed on July 1, 2011.
- Signed an agreement with General Motors to research advanced natural gas engine technology for light-duty vehicles.
- Signed an agreement with Caterpillar to evaluate direct injection, natural gas fuel system technologies for possible use on Caterpillar's large engines.
- Announced Heckmann order for 200 Peterbilt LNG trucks powered by Westport HD Systems.
Economic Outlook
For the calendar year ended December 31, 2010, Westport reported consolidated revenue of $144.4 million. Westport is revising its revenue outlook for the calendar year ending December 31, 2011 and increasing the Company's expected revenue growth to approximately 40% year-over-year, not including revenue contribution from the acquisition of Emer on July 1, which is expected to contribute between $31 million and $34 million through the remainder of the calendar year.
First Quarter Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results
Westport's consolidated revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011 were $44.9 million, an increase of $19.4 million, or 76.0%, from $25.5 million in the same period last year. CWI revenue for the quarter was $31.9 million on 1,056 units as compared to $24.3 million on 724 units for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. Westport LD contributed $10.9 million in revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2011. Westport HD product revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2011 was $1.3 million with 17 HD Systems shipped, compared to $0.5 million in the comparative quarter with 6 Systems shipped.
Westport's engine development program with Volvo is proceeding as planned. Westport records service revenue based on the successful completion of program milestones. Therefore, with no milestone scheduled for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, no service revenue was recorded. During the quarter ended June 30, 2011, $3.6 million in costs related to the Company's efforts under the Volvo development agreements were recorded in research and development expenses. These expenses will be reimbursable on completion of the next milestone, which is currently scheduled for the quarter ended December 31, 2011.
Gross margin for the three months ended June 30, 2011 was $15.2 million, or 33.9% of total revenue, compared to $8.8 million, or 34.5% of total revenue, in the prior year period. CWI gross margin and gross margin percentage for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 increased to $14.0 million and 43.9%, respectively, from $8.6 million and 35.3%, respectively, in the prior year period, due primarily to improved product reliability and reduction in selling and warehousing expenses. Westport HD gross margin (not including service revenue) and gross margin percentage for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 was negative $1.0 million and negative 51.4%, respectively, compared to $0.2 million and 15.7%, respectively, in the prior year period. During the quarter, Westport HD recorded a campaign accrual of approximately $0.9 million to help improve product reliability in the early adopter customer base of in-service vehicles. Westport LD recorded a gross margin and gross margin percentage of $2.2 million and 20.6%, respectively.
For the three months ended June 30, 2011, operating expenses (research and development, general and administrative and sales and marketing) were $25.1 million compared to $13.0 million in the prior year period. This increase was driven primarily by:
- An increase in Westport HD and corporate operating expenses by $8.0 million, primarily as a result of higher materials costs and allocation of more resources associated with the Volvo product development, of which $3.6 million is reimbursable under the Volvo development agreements; $1.5 million was attributed to one-time administrative expenses related to the acquisition of Emer; and $1.6 million in stock-based compensation and the rest was attributed to an increase in costs to support natural gas market development.
- Westport LD's integration of OMVL's operating expenses of $3.1 million, of which $1.6 million is research and development activity related to the expansion product offerings to light-duty automotive OEMs.
- An increase in CWI's expenses of $1.5 million related primarily to an increase in policy expense, offset by lower research and development and administrative costs by $0.4 million.
For the three months ended June 30, 2011 Westport recorded $0.4 million income from its 35% interest in Weichai Westport Inc. (WWI). This is compared to a net equity loss of $0.2 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, attributed to its previous 49% interest in Westport Light Duty Inc. (formerly, Juniper Engines Inc.), the joint venture between Westport and OMVL, (prior to July 2, 2010). Although not consolidated in the revenue lines, Westport notes that WWI saw revenue growth of approximately 125% on shipments of 1,654 engines during the quarter.
Net loss attributed to the Company for the three months ended June 30, 2011 was $18.1 million, or $0.38 loss per share, compared to net loss of $8.1 million, or $0.20 loss per share, in the three months ended June 30, 2010. Westport's adjusted EBITDA loss for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 was $10.6 million compared to $5.2 million last year. As noted above, $3.6 million of this amount will be reimbursable under Westport's Volvo program agreement and $1.5 million related to one time acquisition expenses.
As of June 30, 2011, Westport's cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments balance was $162.4 million compared to $180.3 million at March 31, 2011. For the three months ended June 30, 2011, cash used in operations was $16.0 million with $11.8 million used for operating purposes, and $4.2 million used for working capital. Cash used in investing activities included purchase of fixed assets of $1.8 million and loan advances of $1.6 million, offset by a net proceeds from the sale of short-term investments of $8.4 million. Cash flows from financing included $0.8 million in shares issued for stock option exercises offset by repayment of short-term debt of $0.2 million. Foreign exchange on Canadian dollar and Euro denominated cash balances resulted in a positive adjustment to cash and cash equivalents by approximately $0.8 million. Subsequent to the quarter end, Westport closed its acquisition of Emer and paid down approximately $36 million in that company's debt, and on July 3, 2011, on the maturity of the Company's 2008 subordinated debenture notes, Westport repaid the principal of CDN$15.0 million plus accrued interest.
Westport Light-Duty (Westport LD) Business Highlights
Westport LD offers a range of products and services to the light-duty vehicle and industrial markets, including market development, product design and engineering, complete proprietary engine and vehicle systems and proprietary components.
In the quarter, Westport entered into an agreement with General Motors to research advanced natural gas engine technologies for light-duty vehicles. Both General Motors and Westport will bring their extensive expertise to develop natural gas engine controls, emissions and performance strategies. Westport LD also announced a planned technical centre in Detroit, Michigan to support automotive OEMs.
Westport LD, under its Juniper Engines brand, is the exclusive supplier of 2.4L LPG engines to Clark Material Handling. Westport LD also completed the one-year oil field service trial of five engines in Alberta and Saskatchewan, demonstrating excellent performance, durability and fuel efficiency.
Subsequent to June 30, 2011, Westport acquired Emer S.p.A. of Italy, a leading fuel system provider in the CNG and LPG industry with a significant track record in technology innovation and operations. Emer also brings new and leading OEM relationships (including FIAT and VW), complementary strategic markets including Italy, Germany and India, and significant sales synergies. Westport LD now offers a complete systems solution to OEMs looking to take advantage of the growing alternative fuel market.
Cummins Westport Inc. (CWI) Business Highlights
CWI, a 50:50 global joint venture between Westport and Cummins Inc., is focused on the development, marketing and sale of mid-range, low-emissions alternative fuel engines for applications such as trucks and buses. CWI revenues increased by 31.7% to $31.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 from $24.3 million in same period last year. CWI's net income attributable to Westport was $2.9 million compared to $1.5 million in the prior year, an increase of $1.4 million or 94%.
During the quarter ended June 30, 2011, CWI shipped 350 units to the North American refuse truck market. This market segment has exhibited a growing preference for CWI's clean and efficient natural gas engines. Also contributing to CWI's performance was a robust regional haul truck market. During the quarter, CWI shipped its first ten engines for use in Volvo VNM daycab tractors for use in regional haul applications. These Volvo tractors will be operated by Talon Logistics, the transportation division of Giant Eagle, a food and fuel retailer based in Pennsylvania.
CWI also achieved a major product milestone during the quarter, building and shipping the 10,000th ISL G engine. Launched in 2007 as the first heavy-duty engine certified to the stringent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2010 emission standards, the ISL G has in four years become the preferred natural gas engine for truck and bus customers worldwide.
Weichai Westport Inc. (WWI) Business Highlights
Weichai Westport continues to build strong engine sales with 1,654 units shipped during the quarter, an increase of 148% over the same period last year. In the first half of calendar 2011, WWI shipped 3,425 units, an increase of 181% over the same period last year. The joint venture expects strong market demand for the second half of 2011 and state-owned fuel providers are active in building LNG transportation infrastructures.
Westport Heavy-Duty (Westport HD) Business Highlights
During the quarter ended June 30, 2011, truck OEMs (Kenworth and Peterbilt) began the delivery of LNG trucks powered by Westport HD Systems to Robert Transport and Vedder Transport. Westport continues to work with the truck OEMs to obtain necessary build slots and invest in market development initiatives to accelerate the adoption of natural gas trucks. In addition, Chesapeake Energy's commitment to invest in publicly accessible CNG and LNG truck fueling stations is expected to accelerate infrastructure build out and drive greater demand for natural gas trucks.
Development of the Volvo HD engine is progressing as scheduled. Westport has received the first engineering development truck from Volvo and completed designs for the main off-engine components including the LNG tank/pump module.
Non-GAAP Financial Measure
Westport considers and uses Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure of its operating performance. Westport defines Adjusted EBITDA as a net loss attributed to the Company before (a) income taxes, (b) depreciation and amortization, (c) interest expense, net, (d) amortization of stock-based compensation, (e) unrealized foreign exchange loss (gain), (f) income (loss) from unconsolidated joint ventures and (g) gains. The term Adjusted EBITDA is not defined under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or U.S. GAAP, and is not a measure of operating income, operating performance or liquidity presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and when assessing Westport's operating performance, investors should not consider Adjusted EBITDA in isolation, or as a substitute for net loss or other consolidated statement of operations data prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Among other things, Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect Westport's actual cash expenditures. Other companies may calculate similar measures differently than Westport, limiting their usefulness as comparative tools. Westport compensates for these limitations by relying primarily on its GAAP results and using Adjusted EBITDA only supplementally.
|Three Months Ended
|June 30,
|Net loss attributed to the Company
|Provision for income taxes
|Depreciation and amortization
|Interest expense, net
|Amortization of stock-based compensation
|Unrealized foreign exchange loss (gain)
|Less: Gains and other
|Less: Income (loss) from unconsolidated joint ventures
|Adjusted EBITDA
This press release includes financial outlook information for Westport and such information is being provided for the purpose of updating prior revenue disclosure and may not be appropriate for, and should not be relied upon for, other purposes.
Live Conference Call & Webcast
The public is invited to listen to the conference call in real time by telephone or webcast on August 4, 2011 at 2:00 pm Pacific Time. To access the conference call by telephone, please dial: 1-800-319-4610 (Canada & USA toll-free) or 604-638-5340. The live webcast of the conference call can be accessed through the Westport website at www.westport.com/investors.
Replay Conference Call & Webcast
To access the conference call replay, please dial 1-800-319-6413 (Canada & USA toll-free) or 604-638-9010 using the pass code 1847. The replay will be available until August 18, 2011. Shortly after the conference call, the webcast will be archived on the Company's website and replay will be available in streaming audio.
About Westport Innovations Inc.
Westport Innovations Inc. is a global leader in alternative fuel, low-emissions technologies that allow engines to operate on clean-burning fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen, and biofuels such as landfill gas. Our unique technologies reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The Company focuses on three distinct categories or target markets - light-, medium-, and heavy-duty - through Westport business units or joint ventures. Westport LD is focused on light-duty automotive systems, components and engines, including 2.4L engines for industrial applications such as forklifts and oilfield service. Cummins Westport (CWI), a joint venture with Cummins, sells the world's broadest range of low-emissions alternative fuel engines for commercial urban fleets such as buses, refuse trucks and vocational vehicles. Westport Heavy Duty (Westport HD) is engaged in the engineering, design and marketing of natural gas-enabling technology for the heavy-duty diesel engine and truck market. To learn more about our business, visit our website or subscribe to our RSS feed at www.westport.com, or follow us on Twitter @WestportWPRT.
Note: This document contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the demand for our products, the future success of our business and technology strategies, investment, cash and capital requirements, intentions of partners and potential customers, the performance of our products, future market opportunities, speed of adoption of natural gas for transportation, our estimates and assumptions used in our accounting policies, accruals, financial condition and effect of acquisitions. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activities, performance or achievements expressed in or implied by these forward looking statements. These risks include risks related to our revenue growth, operating results, industry and products, the general economy, conditions of and access to the capital and debt markets, governmental policies and regulation, technology innovations, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, the progress of clean air plans at the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach and other global government stimulus packages, the acceptance of natural gas vehicles in fleet markets, the relaxation or waiver of fuel emission standards, the inability of fleets to access capital or government funding to purchase natural gas vehicles, the sufficiency of bio methane for use in our vehicles, the development of competing technologies as well as other risk factors that may affect our actual results, performance or achievements or financial position discussed in our most recent Annual Information Form and other filings with securities regulators. Readers should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they were made. We disclaim any obligation to publicly update or revise such statements to reflect any change in our expectations or in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those set forth in the forward looking statements except as required by National Instrument 51-102.
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Work is under way to monitor objectionable odours from Motueka's wastewater treatment network and the sewage plant, and to try different techniques aimed at eliminating them.
This summer the Council has received a number of odour complaints in Motueka. The odours have been sheeted back to the wastewater treatment plant and depending on certain wind and weather conditions have been reported as unbearable.
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It would be mutually beneficial for farmers in the West to recruit agricultural interns from Africa
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Meanwhile in Africa farmers struggle to produce enough food even to meet local demand, mainly because the natives are not familiar with the modern farming techniques that are employed in the West to increase productivity and improve yields.
With this being the case, it would make perfect sense for farmers in the West to import agricultural interns from Africa who, in return for unpaid labour on their farms, would acquire valuable knowledge and skills which they could take back to Africa with them once they have worked long enough to repay the debt they owe the farmer who sponsored their trip.
Naturally, farmers must be entitled to protect their investments from agricultural intern-rustlers by housing their horticultural trainees in secure accommodation and by giving them unique tattoos to identify their sponsors, thus deterring unscrupulous rural neighbours from luring agricultural interns away by offering them alternative work placement opportunities on their own farms.
But the real winners will be the people of Africa - the agricultural interns only have to reimburse the Western farmer's expenses: the shipping costs; the agricultural intern-trader's recruitment fees; the ongoing cost of providing the intern with food and shelter, plus the customary administration charges, with interest added to the debt as appropriate, before they will be free to work their passages back to their homelands where they will be able to pass on their knowledge of Western agriculture to help develop their local farming industries.
That's why I believe that it would be mutually beneficial for farmers in the West to recruit agricultural interns from Africa.
Thank you.
I'd like to address a few points in your argument in turn.
1. African farmers don't meet the demand for a multitude of reasons. Not just limited knowledge, in fact that is a very small part as there are multiple NGOs that specialize in this, including The One Acre Fund and Hands Up Africa. Both of these organizations provide not only knowledge but also equipment for farming, a much more needed asset. Many of the problem are not due to supply and demand but due to war, oppressive governments, and lack of funds to purchase and maintain proper equipment. None of these things are solved by your system.
2. Unpaid labor interns, that must pay their way back. Well, while interns are a often used form of labor by college students and low-level employees, the requirement of them paying debts to the farmers is highly illegal. Paying a low level of wage is something that used to be called "indentured servitude" people getting paid very little to pay off their passage to America or other places. However, importing "interns" and charging "shipping costs" and other fees without any payment to them as you state "unpaid labour" is what is known as slavery.
3. Marking the "interns" with tattoos, that's fairly inhumane as it is indicating that they are essentially property...slaves.
4. I see no way that the people of Africa will win in this situation. By reducing the cost of Western crops, it would allow them to export much more therefore flooding the African markets which are quite small anyway. Governments over there would not support local farmers that would require enormous overhead costs to get all the equipment needed and setting up the farms themselves, they would rather just import. Then after all the costs that your slavery imposed upon them, if they ever did get back to Africa, they would never be able to afford running a farm.
Your argument is inherently flawed from the start and there is no substance behind this being a plausible idea, let alone the fact that it is a means of trying to circumvent the 13th Amendment.
1. While it is true that Africa faces some serious problems beyond lack of technical know-how, it is nevertheless very important that the efforts existing NGO's are making to help develop agriculture in the region are enhanced by not only a trained workforce, which can be built up locally, but also an experienced workforce of former agricultural interns returning from their work placements in the West.
2. My opponent, quite rightly, compared agricultural internships with the most widely used method of enslaving people today: bonded labour. According to Anti-Slavery International "bonded labour, or debt bondage, has existed for hundreds of years. In South Asia it is rooted in the caste system and flourishes in agriculture, in cottage industries, and in factories. Debt bondage was also used as a means of trapping indentured labourers into working on plantations in Africa, the Caribbean and South-East Asia, following the abolition of the slave trade."
Bonded labour has fallen out of favour in the West over recent times but the International Labour Organisation estimates "a minimum 11.7 million are in forced labour in the Asia-Pacific region, the majority of whom are in debt bondage."
Bonded labour is illegal in most developing countries, but the practice remains widespread because the law is rarely enforced. Similarly, the unpaid graduate internships that are commonplace in the West, especially within large companies and investment banks, are technically illegal because the interns are unpaid and, therefore, do not receive the statutory minimum wage.
Notwithstanding, the law is not generally enforced, indeed, the British Government even has an online portal which puts candidates in touch with 'employers' offering unpaid internships, where the worker (or more usually his or her parents) pays his or her own travel and living expenses but receives no income.
So what's the difference between an unpaid agricultural intern and a bonded labourer? If a bonded labourer is a "slave" then so is an "intern", wether it be a graduate or an agricultural intern.
Regarding the issue of debt, whereas a graduate intern would normally borrow money from the Bank of Mum and Dad to pay living expenses, an agricultural intern borrows the money from the farmer - unless he is a particularly fortunate young African who has parents rich enough to pay for his trip overseas to study Western agriculture.
3. Think of it this way, lots of people voluntarily obtain tattoos that identify them: most notably members of criminal gangs; but others proudly display tattoos of their favourite sporting teams, car or bike manufacturer or other popular affiliations - and for the agricultural their tattoo will represent a permanent souvenir of their trip to the West and best of all it's for free!
4. The reduction in the cost of Western crops would not necessarily lead to the African market being flooded with cheap food, but even if did this might be a good thing for the many people living on that continent that are malnourished.
More likely, the reduction in the cost of food production in the West would have one or more of the following affects:
a) The resulting increase in Western farmers' profit margins would reduce the need for state-funded agricultural subsidies, and these savings could be diverted to state aid for Africa which could be used to buy agricultural machinery.
b) Lower food production costs in the West would mean that Western wholesalers would no longer import food from Asia where bonded labour is used to produce cheap crops. This would mean, for example, that rice produced in America would be as cheap as rice produced in India and American farmers could compete on a level playing field (or paddy field as the case may be). Again, this would lower prices, increase profits and reduce the need for state subsidies, thus allowing funds to be diverted to Africa.
Of course, if some farmers were unscrupulous enough to exploit their interns by imposing unreasonable financial burdens on them, then charities could step in to pay off their debts: this would be a much more efficient way of helping Africa than channelling donations through corrupt regimes that skim money off to fund the lavish lifestyles of ruthless tyrants and their cronies.
So, in conclusion, my agricultural internships would be good news for Western farmers, consumers and taxpayers plus Africans in general - in fact the only losers would be corrupt African dictators.
Thank you.
Bonded Labour:
Unpaid Internships:
Government Intern Portal:http://graduatetalentpool.direct.gov.uk...
I understand the points that you are making with this, in regards to the NGOs and the bonded labour not being "enforced" however, I do not see how using people as unpaid labor then forcing them to repay the farmers with no income of their own (as you stated they're unpaid) is not slavery, nor is it ethical or worthwhile for them.
You state in point #2 that they're in debt like a college intern to the bank or mom and dad but those college interns or graduates make money little or a lot they get paid, you specifically stated "unpaid" therefore it negates that ability to pay back and flaws the argument. If you said minimal payment it is slightly understandable but you did not say that.
Voluntary vs. forced tattoo is completely different. Do victims of the holocaust see their tattoos as souvenirs of a historic tragedy? No. This would just be another means of degrading people into a commodity rather than a person.
Overall this idea is flawed, to truly assist those in Africa or other developing places , NGOs make the most use and while not particularly highly effective, it is the best option we have short of actual government intervention. This system my opponent suggests is re-legalizing slavery, however it is sugar coated, we already complain about mnimal pay for child labour in places, this is unpaid.
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Posted by RoyLatham 5 years ago
The U.S.constitution is not an argument against a "should" resolution. If something should be done then the Constitution should be amended to allow it. It could be argued that the Constitutional prohibition works well.
Indentured servitude was prohibited in the original Constitution because it was being used to get colonists from England. The provision makes all employment contracts unenforceable in the U.S. If a zillion-dollar sports star wants to quit a team, he can do so. However, he cannot then offer his sports skills to another team. He can go home and bake cookies if he chooses.
Posted by Canadian-In-Florida 5 years ago
Posted by brian_eggleston 5 years ago
BTW, I am British so the American Constitution will not be my primary reference in my defense, that's why I cited "Western" rather than "American" farmers in my opening argument.
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Reasons for voting decision: Pro's case for slavery is nonsense, of course. con could have made a better case for fundamental human rights than he did, but he did well enough by pointing out that an unpaid worker cannot repay debts. Since the "interns" can never leave, there is no benefit to Africa.
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Who inspires you creatively?
Slim Aarons, Ellen von Unwerth, Juergen Teller, Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber und my friend Henrik Purienne. I love how Henrik shoots women.
Another favourite is Peter Beard; his work for Pirelli is amazing. These photographers are all standouts, everything about their work melts my heart.
Be true to yourself.
Share your biggest lessons with us?
My biggest lessons have been to remain artistically detached at times and set clear-cut goals. I have to constantly deliver images to sell a product and make an image look really good, and sometimes people have different ideas of what looks good.
I have always remained true to myself and selective of my collaborations so aesthetically the work resonates with me as much as possible.
Girls, cheetahs and lions.
What locations would you like to shoot next?
There are still so many Mediterranean islands that I would love to explore. Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily. I'm looking forward to going back to Capri as well. I will also shoot in the Greek Islands and the south of France. My ultimate location is Africa.
I have dreams of shooting campaigns inspired by Peter Beard's work for Pirelli. I want to shoot images of girls, cheetahs and lions. I want to shoot campaigns for animals and create images that send a strong message of the importance of walking side by side with nature.
Make a difference.
Are animal rights a passion of yours?
I'm just sucker for animals, I love all animals. They don't have a voice to protect themselves and they're dying because of us. Their life is in our hands and we have killed off so many species already.
A hundred million sharks every year are killed – this is a disgrace and I want to make a difference. Moving forward, I am committed to donating 20 percent of the profit from the sale of my prints to animal conservation.
A look forward.
And finally, let's pretend we have a crystal ball. What do you foresee in your future?
Ok, that's easy. I will be working and living on a big property. There will be animals everywhere, we will have a pool straight out of Slim Aarons' book. I will be living with my love. We will have a couple of children and a beautiful home with incredible art all over the walls. There will be lion cubs everywhere because we're absolutely going to have a lion park. I will be shooting incredible campaigns and beautiful stories for all the brands I mentioned. And I will be a hard-core animal activist.
Family holidays will be spent along the Mediterranean coast and I will be publishing books of my favourite images. Half the proceeds will go to animal conservation funds. That will be my life: nature, beaches, photography, animals and lots of fun.
Thank you for a wonderful afternoon Akila. We wish you all the very best for your upcoming projects and adventures.


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2010, 152 pages. 148 x 200mm
The pursuit of public housing provision was one of the 20th century's redeeming contributions. Yet, in the first decade of the 21st century, public housing as an ideal is contradictory territory resulting from the policies that value entrepreneurial charities or a subsidised private sector over state funded and administered housing.
Estate is a timely contribution to the debates entangling millions of individuals and countless neighbourhoods. The starting point is a visual essay on the Haggerston West & Kingsland Estates in Hackney, East London, in the process of demolition and rebuilding. The 56 photographs document the spaces left behind when people were moved out. Despite residents living in limbo for over 30 years as refurbishment plans were continuously proposed, shelved and re-proposed, the images highlight their innovative solutions to the difficulties of continuing to live while and idea and set of buildings were being abandoned around them.
Texts from Paul Hallam, Cristina Cerulli and Victor Buchli contextualise the artists' project through a broader set of questions resulting in a work that refuses to settle, creating dialogues between photographs, archaeology of the recent past, autobiography and critical theory.
"Estate is a compelling, critically important contribution to public housing - and a provocative intervention into one of the most pressing social crises facing Britain."
- Owen Jones, author 'Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class'
"Estate is touched with love and unflinching observation and the respect which the acknowledging eye can give, full of pragmatism, humour and goodness. It portrays with unerring precision the character of the big London estates I have known well: the inventive beauty, caged poverty, self-respect, bitter fury, sickness, dirt and hope."
- Jay Griffiths, author 'Wild: An Elemental Journey'
"The public imaginary of social housing in Britain is a wasteland of journalistic clichés, political pieties and economic lies. Estate tells an entirely different story, and brings to life a real housing estate in east London, conjured forth in sympathetic words and photographs, and based on direct action to bring about change. A beautiful, heartfelt, path-breaking work."
- Ken Worpole, author of 'Towns for People, Staying Close to the River'
"In Nero times like ours, a rhetoric or polemic of opposition, however lucidly proposed, is no longer enough. Cultural activism needs to embody a poetics of resistance - a richly textured territory which in and of itself challenges prejudice and marks the beginning of a fresh way of being in the world. Passionately engaged, running on a lyric defiance and profoundly empathetic, Estate offers just such a space: building a new architecture of belonging that sears with loss while refusing to yield."
- Gareth Evans, writer and curator
"Estate is a beautiful book full of fragility and human life, apparently focused on the the Haggerston West & Kingsland Estates in Hackney, East London, but broadening out to touch on a variety of topics from public housing to art to innovation. The book contains 56 pictures ... full of the improvised solution that necessity brings on and the discarded remnants of life. They stand in stark contrast with the playful, sometimes opaque art that housing associations and others commission to rejuvenate areas."
- Thomas Neumark Jones, author and organiser
"An excellent and important polemic".
- Owen Hatherley, author 'A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain'
"This is an incredible book that will move you deeply... 5 stars"
- Andrea Gibbons, author, organiser and PM Press editor


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Stan Feuerberg
Stan Feuerberg is recognized as a pioneer and expert in the transformation of electric cooperatives into major utilities. For over 20 years, he has been President & CEO of the Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC), one of the country's largest electric distribution cooperatives, serving one of the fastest-growing regions in the country. Feuerberg, who also serves as chairman of NOVEC's natural gas, optical fiber infrastructure, and electric power supply subsidiaries, has been a leader in the transformation of "rural" electric cooperatives into large, reliable, and competitive utilities for a growing and diversifying customer base. He has led the movement toward self-directed, independent courses in power supply, and has turned NOVEC into an exemplar of good environmental stewardship. Under Feuerberg's leadership, NOVEC has been the most reliable utility in its region for the past 18 consecutive years, averaging less than one hour per year of outage time for its customer-owners. NOVEC has been consistently ranked among the power industry's elite in power quality, reliability, price-value, and overall customer satisfaction. He is also chairman of the Association of Large Distribution Cooperatives, comprised of the nation's 30 largest and fastest-growing electric cooperatives. Feuerberg holds JD and a BSEE degrees from the University of Nebraska.


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How Well Do You Know Greek Gods
For all those Greek Mythology studiers. Or Percy Jackson readers, or Greek nerds like myself, this quiz will test you on how much you really know about the Greek Immortals.
There are 50 questions, all asking who controls a certain element or thing. Can you get them all? Give it a go and test how much you really know about them.
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Shelly Diaper Cover & Hat PDF12-106
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This diaper cover and matching hat are covered with soft, feminine shells. Adorned with a pretty swirled rose that can be studded with pearls or other jewels is a perfect ensemble for her first photo shoot. Imagine those photos with a strand of pearls draped over her sweet little body.
Makes a great hat/diaper cover to wear with a dress for every day wear too.
See separate listing for coordinated sweater, booties and blanket -- together this is a beautiful layette for a new baby!
Size: Newborn - 3 months
Designed in baby, sport/DK weight yarn. I used Bernat Softee.
My patterns are written in Standard American Terms and include pictures, stitch guides and explanations, as necessary, to make them easy to follow.
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Welcome to Abu Dhabi Marine Services "SAFEEN"
Abu Dhabi Marine Services "SAFEEN" provides a comprehensive range of world-class marine services and ancillary quayside services for vessels calling at all Abu Dhabi Ports. Wholly owned by Abu Dhabi Ports, SAFEEN represents a team of over 160 certified and extensively trained professionals who work together to ensure a superior, cost-effective service.
With a dedicated team and modern technology, equipment, and marine assets, SAFEEN offers a wide spectrum of marine services including vessel traffic services (VTS), pilotage, harbour towage and mooring, as well as an innovative portfolio of additional services, including garbage disposal, bunkering, fresh water delivery, issuing of permits and diving services. An advanced fleet of tugs and other vessels support Safeen's efforts to ensure safe and timely passage of all vessels through Abu Dhabi's ports.
With safety at the heart of SAFEEN's operations, the company passed an important milestone in 2016 having clocked up over one million working hours without 'Lost Injury Time'. SAFEEN is also a regular recipient of industry distinctions including; the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for safety management; the International Safety Management (ISM) certification; and the International Standard for Maritime Pilot Organizations (ISPO) – the industry gold standard.
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SAFEEN Services
Abu Dhabi Marine Services 'SAFEEN' is a one-stop shop for all the mooring needs of the clients of Abu Dhabi's ports'. Our experienced workforce ensures that vessels arriving to and departing from a berth are moored and unmoored safely and efficiently.
SAFEEN's team of trained and certified tug masters and other crew have knowledge of the full range of vessel types, from floating offshore oil & gas infrastructure to post-Panamax container ships as well as detailed knowledge of the harbour characteristics of Abu Dhabi's ports.
SAFEEN's fleet of advanced tugs provides customers with safe, reliable, and efficient arrival and departure to and from ports.
A skilled team of experienced and certified pilots works tirelessly to ensure uninterrupted port activity 24 hours a day, seven days a week, across Abu Dhabi's ports.
In addition, the close coordination with VTS and Towage ensures our pilots board vessels on time, as they professionally assist ship masters to bring their vessels in and out of port.
|Vessel Traffic Services (VTS)
VTS is the single point of contact for vessels seeking a full range of marine services and ancillary quayside services in the Emirate's seaports.
Safeen combines advanced radio communication and radar surveillance technologies with highly trained Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) supervisors and operators, to ensure safe, timely and reliable VTS services to all ships using Abu Dhabi ports and waterways.
|VTS Consolidation
Safeen plans to consolidate the VTS system in all Abu Dhabi ports to increase operational efficiency and maximise profit for ports operations.
Upon completion, the consolidation will also enhance the marine work flow and increase navigational safety within Khalifa, Musaffah, Zayed and the Free Ports.
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Safeen services and maintains all Aid-to-Navigation (AtoN) buoys and beacons located across the coastline and waterways of Abu Dhabi, helping to ensure the safe and efficient movement of all types of vessels.
SAFEEN's AtoN Department has been established in compliance with the maritime buoyage standards as set down by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA).
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| SAFEEN provides a single point of contact for a full array of both traditional marine services and also a wide range of ancillary quayside services.
Offerings include: ferry management services, bathymetric survey services, Yokohama fender, Bollard Pull testing services, leasing fender services, oil spill response, emergency response services, salvage services, fresh water supply, garbage disposal, bunkering services, issuing of permits, and diving services that include underwater inspection, filming and video.
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All of us at Taste of Atlanta (September 25-27 at Midtown's Tech Square) are huge supporters of local farmers and the food they grow here in Georgia. At this year's festival, we're happy to announce we'll be offering a stage that speaks specifically to the subject with our Eat GA Stage. Throughout the weekend, you'll get the chance to eat, learn and discover new knowledge about Georgia's tasty bounty from a few of the chefs and growers that know it best.
2:00 pm
Chef and Author Jennifer Booker will kick off the stage's programming with her presentation Cooking with Local Black Eyed Peas. The GA Grown Executive Chef works as a personal chef, instructor and menu consultant, and recently released the book, Field Peas to Foie Gras: Southern Recipes with a French Accent.
3:00 pm
Get insider tips about planting and growing herbs at How to Grow Your Garden. Led by Jule-Lynne Macie, agriculture and natural resources development coordinator at UGA Extension, this demo offers numerous suggestions for growing herbs in containers—perfect for the apartment dweller!
4:00 pm
Cheer on three kid cooks during the Iron Chef Kids Cooking Competition. Contestants will be using peanut butter as a key ingredient in this Morelli's-sponsored event.
2:00 pm
Get nutty with your salad when you use a few tricks from Don Koehler's talk, Power Your Salads with Peanuts. As executive director of the Georgia Peanut Commission, Koehler knows a thing or two about the official state crop.
3:00 pm
Learn how to put up those excess fruits and vegetables for winter with tips on how to can fruits and vegetables safely—and deliciously. This presentation will be led by Jessica Hill and Cindee Sweda, both UGA Extension Family and Consumer Sciences agents.
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On Aug. 31, Minister Li Ganjie presents and speaks at a symposium.
MEP held a symposium on the implementation of the action plan for the integrated air pollution control in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas in the upcoming autumn and winter, and of the six supplementary plans. Minister Li Ganjie presented and spoke at the symposium. He emphasized the importance to raise the political stance, implement the action plan and supplementary plans as soon as possible, and put up a good and tough fight against the air pollution in the upcoming autumn and winter.
Li noted that the air pollution control in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas is one of the major political tasks deployed by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. The top leaders have made important instructions that the local governments and departments have followed and then made new strides. The mean monthly reading of PM2.5 hit the record low in Beijing from March through August. However, the air pollution remains a daunting challenge in this region. The unlicensed air pollutant emitters and coal-fired boilers have not been completely treated and bulk coals, flying ash, and VOCs still present a prominent problem. We are still under huge pressure to meet the objectives specified in the action plan for controlling air pollution, which is not only an issue of development, but also an issue of people's livelihood and a social issue. It is imperative to recognize the importance and necessity of the fight against air pollution in the autumn and winter, and realize the balanced economic and social development and ecological conservation of this region.
To this end, we need to identify the objectives, tasks, and safeguard measures and grasp the overall plans, said Li. The portfolio of policy measures includes the aforementioned action plan, the strict inspection plan, the tour inspection plan, the thematic inspection plan, the quantified accountability rules, the information sharing plan, and the awareness-raising plan. The action plan proposes more strict measures to treat both the root causes and symptoms of air pollution, breaks down and allocates the air quality improvement goals to the 28 municipalities in this region, and assigns the specific tasks to the city/district/county levels. The six supplementary plans further specify the safeguard measures by introducing creative inspection mechanisms, strengthening the responsibilities of local Party and government leading officials, and establishing sound information sharing and awareness-raising systems.
It is imperative to introduce creative inspection mechanisms and transmit the pressure of air pollution control to the departments and individuals concerned, according to the six supplementary plans. A five-step approach has been put in place, "the strict inspection" canvasses major air pollution problems and "transfers" them to the local governments for them to be solved and made public within a prescribed period of time. Then over 100 "tour inspection" teams double check the rectifications that have been made, and "arrange talks" with the local governments that have been sluggish in settling the pollution problems. Then 10 or so most problematic cities/districts are to be checked by the "central environmental protection inspection" teams.
Also, it is important to strengthen the quantified assessment and accountability of local governments. The (deputy) county/district governors and Party chiefs and even (vice) mayors and municipal Party chiefs will be held accountable for not rectifying the problems transferred by the strict inspection teams.
The information sharing and awareness-raising activities will be carried out, availing of the public supervision to monitor the rectification progress, disseminating the measures and effects of the actions, and disclosing the local governments' inactions, the environmental deterioration, and the industry's illegal pollution activities.
Li stressed that in order to accelerate the implementation of the action plan, we should enhance the organization and leadership, establish cooperation between upper and lower levels, and among different departments and regions; step up management and innovation, and establish long-term mechanisms; provide stronger technical support and improve the pollution control level; and strengthen regional collaboration to tackle heavy air pollution.
Finally, Li emphasized that we should highlight the work priorities of the action plan, make detailed work plans, adopt systematic and integrated policy measures, mobilize our veteran soldiers and brilliant generals, keep a close eye on the local Party committees and governments, qualify the accountability, offer stronger technical supports, increase public supervision, and conduct awareness-raising activities, so as to improve the regional air quality and greet the victorious opening of the 19th National Congress of the CPC.
The meeting was chaired by Vice Minister Zhao Yingmin. The responsible officials with the people's governments of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan spoke at the meeting. The director generals of the environmental protection departments (bureaus) of the above six provinces (municipalities), the heads of the governments and the EPBs of 26 municipalities and 6 counties/county-level cities, the heads of Xiong'an New Area and Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone, as well as the heads of the relevant internal departments, regional offices and affiliated institutions of MEP attended the meeting.
(This English version is for your reference only.In case any discrepancy exists between the Chinese and English context, the Chinese version shall prevail.)